# Senior Technical Role in Building High-Performance AI Data Pipelines

**Company**: NVIDIA
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: 184,000 USD - 287,500 USD for Level 4, and 224,000 USD - 356,500 USD for Level 5
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

NVIDIA's team develops data engineering solutions that empower AI developers in autonomous vehicle (AV) domains to innovate quickly and effectively at scale. We seek an exceptional individual to design and optimize microservices and data pipelines to process massive volumes of AV data and enable seamless data mining and AI training.

**Responsibilities:**

- Scope and build tools, microservices, workflows, and distributed applications to accelerate data mining and AI training.

- Design and implement solutions for streaming, resilience, logging, security, authentication, workflow orchestration, and data management.

- Deploy AI models.

- Design and develop Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) workflows enabling hybrid and agentic patterns.

- Analyze and operationalize complex distributed systems for speed-of-light performance.

**Requirements:**

- Experience developing high-performance, scalable software systems.

- MS with 6+ years, or BS (or equivalent experience) with 8+ years of relevant experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.

- Strong programming skills in Python or Golang.

- Proficiency in key technologies like Kubernetes, Helm, Hive, Parquet, SQL, vector databases, e.g., Milvus.

- Strong architectural skills with a proactive, problem-solving mentality.

- Experience in data mining, AI development.

- Experience building ETL pipelines and working with big data engines.

- Exceptional collaboration skills to work with system software and AI expert teams.

- Eagerness to learn and adopt new technologies such as NVIDIA RAPIDS.

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- Prior experience with large-scale real-time streaming, augmented reality, or data curation.

- Prior background with Spark.

- Exposure to the latest advances in AI, including Large Language Models, Vision-Language Models, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAGs).

- Innovative results, including patents, publications, or open source contributions.

Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 184,000 USD - 287,500 USD for Level 4, and 224,000 USD - 356,500 USD for Level 5. You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- Golang
- Kubernetes
- Helm
- Hive
- Parquet
- SQL
- Milvus
- Distributed Computing
- Big Data Processing

### Nice to have
- Spark
- Large Language Models
- Vision-Language Models
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAGs)

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